Hayward, CA (January 29, 2010) — Recording King is excited to announce the result of our
collaboration with the respected guitarist and historian Eric
Schoenberg. The two new models will be a classic single 0 parlor size
cutaway, and a 00-size with a cutaway body. The Recording King parlor
guitars (RP1-626 and RP2-626) offer players the even frequency response,
clarity and wider neck traditional to a classic parlor style, but the
unique addition of a cutaway gives fingerstyle guitarists easier access
to the upper frets.

Eric Schoenberg’s influence on guitar marries traditional fingerstyle
playing to classic ragtime and walking basslines. His Fingerpicking
Beatles book is considered an essential text for modern fingerstyle
players. Mr. Schoenberg prefers the 12-fret cutaway because he believes
the 12-fret neck joint gives the guitars a gutsier voice, yet the
cutaway is not so deep that it takes away from the sound. As Schoenberg
describes it, the Recording King parlor guitars offer the best of both a
12-fret and a 14-fret neck joint, thanks to the cutaway. Schoenberg
explains his decision to work with Recording King on these guitars in
this way: “When the (Recording King) ROS-626 model came out, I saw it
and said, the quality is excellent, the style is great; a collaboration
on something similar is just what I’ve been looking for.”

On both the RP1-626 and RP2-626, the one-piece mahogany neck with a
classic v-profile meets the body at the 12-fret with a hand cut dovetail
joint, giving these guitars a true parlor sound, warm and rich, but
perfectly balanced. The solid AAA Engelmann spruce top and solid
mahogany back and sides have been carefully selected and hand-assembled.
With a 1-3/4” nut width, Grover tuners, ebony fretboard and ebony
pyramid bridge, these parlor guitars are as well-appointed and unique as
they are beautiful. Each guitar is sprayed with a thin coat of
nitrocellulose lacquer and then hand-buffed for a finish that is
extremely resonant and historically accurate.

The RP1-626 and RP2-626 models have a MAP of $999.99 and have a lifetime
warranty.

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